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It's not directly affecting you the user, it's affecting the market of app and web developer which have no choice but to dance to Apple's tune as they control a large chuck of a very lucrative market.

Why should you, the user, care? For the same reason users care when Micros ft was a monopoly on desktop.

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How is that different than web developers being required to dance to the tune of basically every major browser? They all have little oddities that have to be taken into account, speaking as someone who has done quite a bit of web development, every major browser has it's deviations from the standard, intentional and often otherwise, that require little tweaks to one's code.

And to be totally honest with you, a lot of Safari iOS's quirks are unambiguously good, pro-privacy practices that frustrate the shit out of surveillance marketing firms and I quite hope Apple keeps it up.

Weird that you don't see a problem with monopolies and why they're bad.

Weird that you've sidestepped my points entirely to do vague whataboutism.

I don't want to repeat all the arguments already said by others in this thread so all I had to add is that any monopoly can and does eventually end up abusing it's power for profit. Now it's towards developers and competitors, tomorrow it could be towards users aka you.

The fact that you don't see a problem with that is the issue because you seem to assume that Apple is and will always be on your side and looking after your best interest.

> ..to be totally honest with you, a lot of Safari iOS's quirks are unambiguously good, pro-privacy practices that frustrate the shit out of surveillance marketing firms and I quite hope Apple keeps it up.

So do I.

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